The Marine Corps expects to break ground on a state-of-the-art wargaming center in 2021 January 11 Marines with 3rd Marine Division play a game of Memoir 44’ on Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan. But something a little more advanced is in store as the Corps expects to break ground on a wargaming center at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, in 2021 (Cpl. Timothy Hernandez/Marine Corps) Nearly four years after Marine officials announced the Corps wanted a state-of-the art, advanced wargaming center near the service’s headquarters, the service expects to break ground on the Quantico, Virginia, facility in 2021. At the 2017 Modern Day Marine Military Exposition then-Lt. Col. Ross Monta, with the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab, said the three- to five-year plan would put Marines on track to have a capability of conducting 20 war games a year, including two, 250-participant exercises.
Not quite the Terminator, but ‘muscle-bound’ robots are coming for the Army, Marines December 30, 2020 The Legged Squad Support System, or LS3, is demoed by engineers at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. Legged robots such as this are likely to be early candidates for programs looking to add muscle to the machines for better stability and mobility on uneven terrain. (Sgt. Michael Walters/Marine Corps) Army researchers are looking to add muscle tissue to robot platforms, giving them “never before seen mobility and agility.”
The effort by scientists with the Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command, Army Research Laboratory and Duke University and the University of North Carolina is looking first at adding muscle to legged robot joints rather than using actuators, according to an Army Research Laboratory statement.